Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

When General John Fletcher died in 1806, his legitimate children Andrew and Henry were infants. He had previously appointed curators for them and trustees for his affairs. In this section are the papers acquired and generated by these curators and trustees over the succeeding half-century, mostly through their clerks, John Home, Writer to the Signet and William Home, Writer to the Signet.

Scope and Contents From the Series:

The archive of the General Treasurer of the Free Church of Scotland, 1843-1900, with related papers including a few of slightly earlier and later date. The archive gives a complete picture of the financial basis of one of the most significant organised religious bodies in Scotland, from the Disruption to the first of the major Presbyterian reunions, dealing in great detail with the sources of finance and with its expenditure on a variety of projects.

Scope and Contents The minutes are in two series which have been foliated separately. The first series (folios 1-22) contains records of admissions to the Incorporation at various dates within the period 1677-1763. The second series (inverted folios 1-126) relates almost entirely to appointments of deacons, boxmasters, and other officers, and to audits of boxmaster’s accounts, 1724-1727, 1730-1832. Inverted folios 127-179 and 181-184 are blank, and inverted folio 180 contains a list of members who had 'been...